Thanks - this works great! Forgot that I could just embed groovy script into the ant test.
Thanks again, Matt On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Soula, William <[email protected]>wrote: > Ant's string comparison is very limited. The <ifStep> can only evaluate > if the property is the value "true" or not. I believe the <condition> > statement can compare a property to a word. But I don't think either of > these options would help you. Whenever I want to use a "real" if statement > I use a groovy step (used to use scriptStep with javascript but groovy is > more powerful as it includes all of java). Then I pass back a property set > to true or false depending on what I want. Below is my attempt at your flow > and hopefully it will make my explanation more useful :) > > <tstamp> > <format property="month" pattern="MM"/> > </tstamp> > <groovy replaceProperties="true"> > if (${month}==1){ > step.setWebtestProperty('test', 'true') > }else { > step.setWebtestProperty('test', 'false') > } > </groovy> > <ifStep test="#{test}"> > <then> > <!--Don't do test--> > </then> > <else> > <!--Test steps here--> > </else> > </ifStep> > > > ------------------------------ > > Hi, > > Anyone know if it is possible to test date expressions within the <ifStep> > of an Ant XML webtest? > > I have a test which, due to some circumstances outside of my control, will > never work if the current date is the first month of the year. Rather than > comment out this test during every January, I'd prefer to set a conditional > to just not have the verify steps execute. > > I guess this is more a question of what it is possible and not possible to > do within an Ant expression - I know I could pass in the current date in a > property, but then I'm not sure if 1) it would be possible to parse this to > test for "first month" or 2) if I could avoid passing the date in and > instead examine a different property. > > Anyone try to do this before? > > Thanks > Matt >
